• Re: What desktop environm

    From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Deavmi on Mon Nov 21 13:30:00 2016
    IceWM

    Is that a minimalistic tiling environment?

    I guess you could call it that. I like it because it does not eat up much memory and I can use it on most older machines that otherwise could not
    handle an X windowed environment.



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  • From Hemo@VERT/UJOINT to Vk3jed on Mon Nov 21 18:05:00 2016
    Vk3jed wrote to Meh <=-

    Meh wrote to Deavmi <=-

    What desktop environment are you guys using on GNU/Linux?
    Mate.

    I use bash. ;) Seriously, it is _very_ rare for me to be using X on my Linux boxes, as they all perform server functions.


    You are not alone. I also am bash interface, usually headless or remote on server machines. Once in a great while I will use a gui, and then get frustrated because I have to hunt menus instead of just typing the command or editing a file.

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Mro on Tue Nov 22 15:03:00 2016
    Mro wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    I use bash. ;) Seriously, it is _very_ rare for me to be using X on my Linux boxes, as they all perform server functions.

    same here and i just dont like any linux gui. they all seem like
    they're trying to copy windows or some other os.

    There's some I don't mind, but they're mostly unnecessary for what my Linux systems do.


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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Hemo on Tue Nov 22 16:13:00 2016
    Hemo wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    You are not alone. I also am bash interface, usually headless or
    remote on server machines. Once in a great while I will use a gui, and then get frustrated because I have to hunt menus instead of just typing the command or editing a file.

    You sound like me. My Linux boxes are also headless, and I'm generally logged in via SSH. Some, I can fire up a GUI and use VNC, but it's very rare for me to do that. :)


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  • From Jazzy_J@VERT/JAYSCAFE to Hemo on Tue Nov 22 00:38:00 2016
    I bash too. I remote into my boxes mostly with ssh. However, if I need a GUI, I like xfce4.

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  • From Ragnarok@VERT/DOCKSUD to Tim Smith on Tue Nov 22 07:44:00 2016
    El 19/11/16 a las 19:36, Tim Smith escribió:
    Re: What desktop environments do you guys use?
    By: Deavmi to DOVE-Net.Unix on Sat Nov 19 2016 08:57 pm

    What desktop environment are you guys using on GNU/Linux?

    I use Debian/KDE

    Love it!
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  • From Tim Smith@VERT/KK4QBN to Vk3jed on Tue Nov 22 06:04:00 2016
    Re: Re: What desktop environm
    By: Vk3jed to Hemo on Tue Nov 22 2016 09:13 pm

    You sound like me. My Linux boxes are also headless, and I'm generally logged in via SSH. Some, I can fire up a GUI and use VNC, but it's very rare for me to do that. :)

    I'll have to take some words from the book of old Angus Mcleod, my linux box had 2 heads, I shall call him Zaphod.. wonder what happened of Angus, if he's still in Barbados living the life.. or what.. we used to bitch like a couple school girls on here, but I liked him pretty well.
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  • From Meh@VERT/NIMBUS to Tim Smith on Tue Nov 22 10:43:00 2016
    Re: Re: What desktop environm
    By: Tim Smith to Vk3jed on Tue Nov 22 2016 11:04 am

    I'll have to take some words from the book of old Angus Mcleod, my linux box had 2 heads, I shall call him Zaphod.. wonder what happened of Angus, if he' still in Barbados living the life.. or what.. we used to bitch like a couple school girls on here, but I liked him pretty well.

    I wonder how old Angus is also..been a LONG time!!

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Meh on Tue Nov 22 10:59:00 2016
    Re: Re: What desktop environm
    By: Meh to Tim Smith on Tue Nov 22 2016 03:43 pm

    Re: Re: What desktop environm
    By: Tim Smith to Vk3jed on Tue Nov 22 2016 11:04 am

    I'll have to take some words from the book of old Angus Mcleod, my linux box had 2 heads, I shall call him Zaphod.. wonder what happened of Angus, if he' still in Barbados living the life.. or what.. we used to bitch like a couple school girls on here, but I liked him pretty well.

    I wonder how old Angus is also..been a LONG time!!

    I visited Angus last summer and he was doing fine. Hopefully still is. :-)

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to Meh on Tue Nov 22 17:49:00 2016
    Re: Re: What desktop environm
    By: Meh to Tim Smith on Tue Nov 22 2016 03:43 pm


    I wonder how old Angus is also..been a LONG time!!



    he's probably dead.
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  • From Tim Smith@VERT/KK4QBN to Meh on Tue Nov 22 18:47:00 2016
    Re: Re: What desktop environm
    By: Meh to Tim Smith on Tue Nov 22 2016 03:43 pm

    of Angus, if he' still in Barbados living the life.. or what.. we used
    to bitch like a couple school girls on here, but I liked him pretty
    well.

    I wonder how old Angus is also..been a LONG time!!


    Yes, sir.. It has.
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  • From Tim Smith@VERT/KK4QBN to Digital Man on Tue Nov 22 18:48:00 2016
    Re: Re: What desktop environm
    By: Digital Man to Meh on Tue Nov 22 2016 03:59 pm

    I wonder how old Angus is also..been a LONG time!!
    I visited Angus last summer and he was doing fine. Hopefully still is. :-)


    Happy to hear!
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  • From Chris@VERT/DMINE to Vk3jed on Wed Nov 23 18:46:00 2016
    Re: Re: What desktop environm
    By: Vk3jed to Hemo on Tue Nov 22 2016 09:13 pm

    You sound like me. My Linux boxes are also headless, and I'm generally logg in via SSH. Some, I can fire up a GUI and use VNC, but it's very rare for m to do that. :)


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    I'm in the same boat, at least at work. I rarely have a need for a gui (and in some cases we had to uninstall X on machines where they weren't excluded for whatever reason).
    I mainly use KDE at home, but at home, I'm like you guys, just ssh'ing into the boxes, or using the VMware console.

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  • From Chris@VERT/DMINE to Vk3jed on Wed Nov 23 18:49:00 2016
    Re: Re: What desktop environm
    By: Chris to Vk3jed on Wed Nov 23 2016 11:46 pm

    I mainly use KDE at home, but at home, I'm like you guys, just ssh'ing into
    Er 'but at home' should be 'but at work', for anyone that cares...

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Chris on Thu Nov 24 15:57:00 2016
    Chris wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    I'm in the same boat, at least at work. I rarely have a need for a gui (and in some cases we had to uninstall X on machines where they weren't excluded for whatever reason).

    When I worked in IT, I spent a lot of time in SSH, though I did have a desktop which ran either KDE or GNOME. It's been years since those days though, so I can't recall for sure. :)

    I mainly use KDE at home, but at home, I'm like you guys, just ssh'ing into the boxes, or using the VMware console.

    SSH is my friend. ;)


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  • From mark firestone@VERT/QBBS to MEH on Thu Nov 24 09:56:00 2016
    --- MEH wrote --

    I wonder how old Angus is also..been a LONG time!

    He's all over the Internet, but he's never answered my emails. ):


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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT/REALITY to Vk3jed on Thu Nov 24 05:14:00 2016
    Re: Re: What desktop environments do you guys use?
    By: Vk3jed to Meh on Mon Nov 21 2016 12:53 pm

    I use bash. ;) Seriously, it is _very_ rare for me to be using X on my Linux boxes, as they all perform server functions.

    I remember managing linux boxes when all Windows did on my desktop was run multiple sessions of TeraTerm. Like 10 or 15, in a couple of time zones. ;)

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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT/REALITY to Dumas Walker on Thu Nov 24 05:17:00 2016
    Re: Re: What desktop environm
    By: Dumas Walker to Deavmi on Mon Nov 21 2016 06:30 pm

    I guess you could call it that. I like it because it does not eat up much memory and I can use it on most older machines that otherwise could not handle an X windowed environment.

    LXDE is a nice low-memory environment. it's the WM for Lubuntu, and on some of my boxes idles in 140 megs or so. Looks like old gnome, and has a few eye-candy things you can do. I settle for a transparent bar at the bottom and Conky on my low-end boxes.

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  • From Mro@VERT/BBSESINF to mark firestone on Thu Nov 24 07:36:00 2016
    Re: Re: What desktop environm
    By: mark firestone to MEH on Thu Nov 24 2016 02:56 pm

    --- MEH wrote --

    I wonder how old Angus is also..been a LONG time!

    He's all over the Internet, but he's never answered my emails. ):



    his internet provider isnt reliable due to his location.

    he WAS all over the internet if you count the years he has been using it.
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  • From Deavmi@VERT/EWBBS to Ragnarok on Thu Nov 24 14:16:00 2016
    On 2016-11-22 05:44 PM, Ragnarok wrote:
    El 19/11/16 a las 19:36, Tim Smith escribió:
    Re: What desktop environments do you guys use?
    By: Deavmi to DOVE-Net.Unix on Sat Nov 19 2016 08:57 pm

    What desktop environment are you guys using on GNU/Linux?

    I use Debian/KDE

    Love it!
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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Poindexter Fortran on Fri Nov 25 15:47:00 2016
    Poindexter Fortran wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    I remember managing linux boxes when all Windows did on my desktop was
    run multiple sessions of TeraTerm. Like 10 or 15, in a couple of time zones. ;)

    I don't know how many I've had open at one time, but "lots" and multiple time zones have been common. :)


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  • From Deavmi@VERT/EWBBS to Vk3jed on Fri Nov 25 12:45:00 2016
    On 2016-11-24 12:57 PM, Vk3jed wrote:
    Chris wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    I'm in the same boat, at least at work. I rarely have a need for a gui (and in some cases we had to uninstall X on machines where they weren't excluded for whatever reason).

    When I worked in IT, I spent a lot of time in SSH, though I did have a desktop
    which ran either KDE or GNOME. It's been years since those days though, so I can't recall for sure. :)

    I mainly use KDE at home, but at home, I'm like you guys, just ssh'ing into the boxes, or using the VMware console.

    SSH is my friend. ;)


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  • From Deavmi@VERT/EWBBS to Mro on Fri Nov 25 12:45:00 2016
    On 2016-11-24 08:36 PM, Mro wrote:
    Re: Re: What desktop environm
    By: mark firestone to MEH on Thu Nov 24 2016 02:56 pm

    --- MEH wrote --

    I wonder how old Angus is also..been a LONG time!

    He's all over the Internet, but he's never answered my emails. ):



    his internet provider isnt reliable due to his location.

    he WAS all over the internet if you count the years he has been using it.
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  • From Deavmi@VERT/EWBBS to Poindexter Fortran on Fri Nov 25 12:47:00 2016
    On 2016-11-24 08:17 PM, Poindexter Fortran wrote:
    Re: Re: What desktop environm
    By: Dumas Walker to Deavmi on Mon Nov 21 2016 06:30 pm

    I guess you could call it that. I like it because it does not eat up much
    memory and I can use it on most older machines that otherwise could not handle an X windowed environment.

    LXDE is a nice low-memory environment. it's the WM for Lubuntu, and on some of
    my boxes idles in 140 megs or so. Looks like old gnome, and has a few eye-candy
    things you can do. I settle for a transparent bar at the bottom and Conky on my
    low-end boxes.

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    Cooleo. I want to setup MATE again on my Raspberry Pis sometime soon.
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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Poindexter Fortran on Sat Nov 26 14:58:00 2016
    LXDE is a nice low-memory environment. it's the WM for Lubuntu, and on some of my boxes idles in 140 megs or so. Looks like old gnome, and has
    a few eye-candy things you can do. I settle for a transparent bar at
    the bottom and Conky on my low-end boxes.

    Yeah, I have installed that one on a box for someone else who needed an environment that would "do" a little more for them than the more-spartan
    IceWM would but that would still not eat up memory like some of the flashier environments. I like it.




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  • From Poindexter Fortran@VERT/REALITY to Dumas Walker on Sun Nov 27 03:05:00 2016
    Re: Re: What desktop environm
    By: Dumas Walker to Poindexter Fortran on Sat Nov 26 2016 07:58 pm

    Yeah, I have installed that one on a box for someone else who needed an environment that would "do" a little more for them than the more-spartan IceWM would but that would still not eat up memory like some of the flashier environments. I like it.

    I feel a little silly, since I've outgrown my single core pentium laptop with 1 gig of memory and now run LXDE on a duale core laptop with 8 gigs. Still idles in about 170 megs of RAM. :)

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  • From Deavmi@VERT/EWBBS to Poindexter Fortran on Mon Nov 28 15:12:00 2016
    On 2016-11-27 06:05 PM, Poindexter Fortran wrote:
    Re: Re: What desktop environm
    By: Dumas Walker to Poindexter Fortran on Sat Nov 26 2016 07:58 pm

    Yeah, I have installed that one on a box for someone else who needed an environment that would "do" a little more for them than the more-spartan IceWM would but that would still not eat up memory like some of the flashier environments. I like it.

    I feel a little silly, since I've outgrown my single core pentium laptop with 1
    gig of memory and now run LXDE on a duale core laptop with 8 gigs. Still idles
    in about 170 megs of RAM. :)

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    Dayum. That's nice. I however feel that MATE or XFCE is the lowest I'd
    go in terms of a deksotp environment. LXDE just isn't for me. Maybe for
    a server but for a desktop experience, nah.

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  • From Deavmi@VERT/EWBBS to Deavmi on Mon Nov 28 15:12:00 2016
    On 2016-11-28 08:12 PM, Deavmi wrote:
    On 2016-11-27 06:05 PM, Poindexter Fortran wrote:
    Re: Re: What desktop environm
    By: Dumas Walker to Poindexter Fortran on Sat Nov 26 2016 07:58 pm

    Yeah, I have installed that one on a box for someone else who
    needed an
    environment that would "do" a little more for them than the
    more-spartan
    IceWM would but that would still not eat up memory like some of the
    flashier environments. I like it.

    I feel a little silly, since I've outgrown my single core pentium
    laptop with 1
    gig of memory and now run LXDE on a duale core laptop with 8 gigs.
    Still idles
    in about 170 megs of RAM. :)

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    Dayum. That's nice. I however feel that MATE or XFCE is the lowest I'd
    go in terms of a deksotp environment. LXDE just isn't for me. Maybe for
    a server but for a desktop experience, nah.
    * desktop (I cannot spell, just kidding - I can)

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to Poindexter Fortran on Mon Nov 28 14:01:00 2016
    I feel a little silly, since I've outgrown my single core pentium
    laptop with 1 gig of memory and now run LXDE on a duale core laptop
    with 8 gigs. Still idles in about 170 megs of RAM. :)

    If it works for you, there is nothing silly about it. :) It is nice to run
    an OS that gives you such a choice.



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  • From Deavmi@VERT/EWBBS to Dumas Walker on Tue Nov 29 13:12:00 2016
    On 2016-11-29 02:01 AM, Dumas Walker wrote:
    I feel a little silly, since I've outgrown my single core pentium
    laptop with 1 gig of memory and now run LXDE on a duale core laptop
    with 8 gigs. Still idles in about 170 megs of RAM. :)

    If it works for you, there is nothing silly about it. :) It is nice to run an OS that gives you such a choice.



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  • From KK4QBN@VERT/KK4QBN to Deavmi on Wed Apr 19 11:31:00 2017
    Re: Re: What desktop environments do you guys use?
    By: Deavmi to Tim Smith on Sun Nov 20 2016 11:13 am

    Chatsworth GA


    What KDE do you have? KDE 5?

    I've since changed to Kubuntu, Newest release.. 5 I believ.


    love it

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